Mother Teresa Canonized as a Saint by Pope Francis
2016-09-04
Crowd of more than 100,000 gathers in St. Peter’s Square for proclamationContinue Reading
Quake shakes southern Philippines
2016-09-04
Tagum: A strong earthquake shook parts of the southern Philippines on Sunday, briefly panicking residents, the government volcanology office said. The 6.0-magnitude quake rocked the southern island of Mindanao but there were no initial reports of damage or casualties, the civil defence office said. The US Geological Survey put theContinue Reading
Prema thanks Pope for choosing Teresa mercy icon
2016-09-04
Vatican City: “We are grateful to God and to Pope Francis, who proclaimed the Year of mercy and chose Mother Teresa as an ‘icon of mercy’. Mother Teresa’s canonization is an opportunity to spread the message of the Gospel and God’s mercy: we hope that the grace of mercy reachesContinue Reading
Pope hails volunteers on eve of Mother Teresa sainthood
2016-09-04
Vatican City: Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the eve of a sainthood ceremony for the nun who cared for India’s destitute. Choosing “to not see hunger, disease, exploitedContinue Reading
Mother Teresa: The humble sophisticate
2016-09-04
Vatican City: Mother Teresa, who died in Kolkata, India, 19 years ago, will be formally declared a Saint of the Catholic Church by Pope Francis at a Vatican ceremony on Sunday. David Willey, who has reported from Rome for the BBC during five decades, tells how he once spent anContinue Reading
Mother Teresa showed young Buddhist who Jesus is
2016-09-03
Vatican City:A personal encounter with Mother Teresa and her work serving the poor and the dying led a young Japanese man on a journey of faith and conversion. “I was born into a Buddhist family; I didn’t know about Jesus, Christianity, Catholicism or anything,” Missionaries of Charity Father Francisco AkihiroContinue Reading
Mother Teresa’s nephew: Remembering my aunt, the saint
2016-09-03
Alois Gumbar is one of the last living relatives of Mother Teresa. After years of waiting, he will attend the canonization ceremony of his aunt on September 4. Katerina Blazevska visited him in Skopje. Alois Gumbar is a famous goldsmith in Skopje, the Macedonian capital and birthplace of Mother Teresa,Continue Reading
Mother Teresa’s ‘miracle’ doesn’t feel special, just loved
2016-09-03
Vatican City: The Brazilian man whose “miraculous” cure from a brain infection paved the way for Mother Teresa’s canonization this weekend said he is grateful for his life but doesn’t feel particularly chosen by God. Rather, Marcilio Haddad Andrino told a Vatican press conference Friday he is just one exampleContinue Reading
Mother Teresa’s canonization portrait – and what the artist thought of her
2016-09-02
Washington D.C: The canonization portrait of Blessed Mother Teresa, a copy of which will hang from St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, is meant to reflect her joy and her selflessness, said the artist. “The credit lies more with the subject of the painting than with the painter,” artist Chas FaganContinue Reading
Thousands expected to watch Mother Teresa be made a saint
2016-09-02
Rome: Affectionately called the “saint of the gutters” during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, just 19 years after her death. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mother Teresa was one of the most influential women in theContinue Reading